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Charles Caleb Colton has 511 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people…
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the…
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Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that…
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Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.
— Morton Blackwell
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Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.
— Anne Robinson
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Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation…
— Germaine Greer
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Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their…
— Barbara Mertz
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best…
— Charles Darwin
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